Holographic assembly of quasicrystalline photonic heterostructures

Yael Roichman*, David G. Grier

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Quasicrystals have a higher degree of rotational and point-reflection symmetry than conventional crystals. As a result, quasicrystalline heterostructures fabricated from dielectric materials with micrometer-scale features exhibit interesting and useful optical properties including large photonic bandgaps in two-dimensional systems. We demonstrate the holographic assembly of two-dimensional and three-dimensional dielectric quasicrystalline heterostructures, including structures with specifically engineered defects. The highly uniform quasiperiodic arrays of optical traps used in this process also provide model aperiodic potential energy landscapes for fundamental studies of transport and phase transitions in soft condensed matter systems.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)5434-5439
Number of pages6
JournalOptics Express
Volume13
Issue number14
DOIs
StatePublished - 11 Jun 2005
Externally publishedYes

Funding

FundersFunder number
National Science Foundation
Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences0451589
Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences

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